2017 Ivy League Women's Basketball Tournament

2017 Ivy League Women's Basketball Tournament
Classification Division I
Season 201617
Teams 4
Site Palestra
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Television ESPNU, ESPN3
Ivy League Women's Basketball Tournaments
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2016–17 Ivy League women's basketball standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   PCT     W   L   PCT
Harvard 0 0       7 1   .875
Yale 0 0       7 2   .778
Columbia 0 0       5 2   .714
Brown 0 0       5 3   .625
Cornell 0 0       5 3   .625
Penn 0 0       3 3   .500
Princeton 0 0       3 4   .429
Dartmouth 0 0       2 4   .333
2017 Ivy League Tournament winner
As of December 7, 2016; Rankings from AP Poll

The 2017 Ivy League Women's Basketball Tournament is an upcoming women's college conference tournament to be held March 11–12, 2017 at the Palestra on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. It will be the first postseason tournament held by the Ivy League in women's basketball. The champion will earn an automatic bid to the 2017 NCAA Tournament.

Background

The Ivy League was the last NCAA Division I conference not to hold a postseason tournament, instead choosing to award its automatic bids to the NCAA men's and women's tournaments to its regular-season champions. In March 2016, the Ivies announced that they would institute men's and women's conference tournaments beginning with the 2016–17 season. Both tournaments will initially be held at the same site. The conference also reduced by one the number of regular-season games that its members are allowed to schedule.[1]

Seeds

The top four teams in the Ivy League regular-season standings will participate in the tournament and will be seeded according to their records in conference play, resulting in a Shaughnessy playoff.

Seed School Conference Tiebreaker
1
2
3
4

Schedule

Session Game Time* Matchup# Television Attendance
Semifinals – Saturday, March 11
1 1 11:30 AM #2 vs. #3 ESPN3
2 6:30 PM #1 vs. #4
Championship – Sunday, March 12
2 3 4:00 PM Winner of game 1 vs. winner of game 2 ESPNU

*Game times in Eastern Time. #Rankings denote tournament seeding.

Bracket

Semifinals
Saturday, March 11
The Palestra
Final
Sunday, March 12
The Palestra
      
1  
4  
 
 
3  
2  

See also

References

  1. "The Ivy League Adds Men's, Women's Basketball Tournaments Beginning in 2017" (Press release). Ivy League. March 10, 2016. Retrieved September 11, 2016.
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